2023
DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2023.1081238
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Effectiveness and safety of manual therapy for knee osteoarthritis: An overview of systematic reviews and meta-analyses

Abstract: BackgroundManual therapy has been used as an alternative approach to treat knee osteoarthritis (KOA) for many years. Numerous systematic reviews (SRs) or meta-analyses (MAs) were published to evaluate its effectiveness and safety. Nevertheless, the conclusions of SRs/MAs are inconsistent, and the uneven quality needs to be critically appraised.ObjectivesTo conduct a comprehensive overview of the effectiveness and safety of manual therapy for KOA and the quality of relevant SRs/MAs, thus providing critical evid… Show more

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“…By applying these techniques, it is expected to Ref. [ 136 ]: improve tissues mobility and function; restore movement, stretching, or ROM; improve muscle activation and timing; decrease pain; and improve circulation. However, from the included reviews [ 46 , 83 , 95 ], some of these benefits were unclear.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…By applying these techniques, it is expected to Ref. [ 136 ]: improve tissues mobility and function; restore movement, stretching, or ROM; improve muscle activation and timing; decrease pain; and improve circulation. However, from the included reviews [ 46 , 83 , 95 ], some of these benefits were unclear.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Several nonpharmacological interventions have demonstrated effectiveness, the most promising being exercise therapy (7). Manual therapy has also proven effective for reducing pain and improving function in individuals with knee OA (5,(8)(9)(10)(11)(12). Assessing the context in which these interventions are assessed is valuable to better understand their applicability and generalizability to real-world clinical practice.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%